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Designing networks for innovation.

Laskowski, Paul Luke.

Designing networks for innovation.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Designing networks for innovation.
Author:	Laskowski, Paul Luke.
Description:	186 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-10, Section: A, page: .
Notes:	Adviser: John Chuang.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-10A.
Subject:	Economics, Theory.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3383268
ISBN:	9781109456905

Designing networks for innovation.
Laskowski, Paul Luke.

Designing networks for innovation. - 186 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-10, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2009.

The last decades have seen tremendous growth and transformation in the Internet's commercial landscape. Underneath this success, however, the underlying network architecture has shown a marked resistance to change; it is now described as stagnant and ossified. Numerous design proposals have been developed by researchers, implemented in code, and written right into the routers and end-systems of the network, only to languish as network operators fail to activate them on a large scale. This has spawned a deep pessimism in the network research community, which has adapted over time by favoring increasingly incremental research.

ISBN: 9781109456905Subjects--Topical Terms:

212740
Economics, Theory.

Designing networks for innovation.
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520 $a The last decades have seen tremendous growth and transformation in the Internet's commercial landscape. Underneath this success, however, the underlying network architecture has shown a marked resistance to change; it is now described as stagnant and ossified. Numerous design proposals have been developed by researchers, implemented in code, and written right into the routers and end-systems of the network, only to languish as network operators fail to activate them on a large scale. This has spawned a deep pessimism in the network research community, which has adapted over time by favoring increasingly incremental research.
520 $a Resolving this resistance to evolution will require an array of reforms spanning the technical infrastructure, the system of contracts between providers, and the governing legal regime. These high-level dimensions are closely interconnected, and changes along one axis may yield adverse results unless paired with specific changes in other dimensions. A comprehensive, top-down approach can highlight interdependencies among design choices, building a high-level conceptual map of the network design space, and identifying beneficial responses.
520 $a An emerging technique in economics describes technological progress with an ideas model of innovation, and may form a sound basis for an investigation of network evolution. This literature features an explicit separation between a process of idea generation, and decisions by firms as to whether to invest in those ideas. This is well-suited to describing the Internet's resistance to evolution, since the creation of new ideas appears as vibrant as ever; it is only in the investment decisions of ISPs that innovation stumbles. Explaining this disconnect requires a new array of modeling techniques, particularly emphasizing network topology as a critical input, along with route selection and contracting.
520 $a Developing such models, this dissertation characterizes four separate obstacles to network evolution: poor accountability, market concentration in access networks, traffic discrimination and other anticompetitive behaviors, and the end-to-end nature of many technologies. Attempts by researchers to enhance network competition can be divided into four high-level strategies: increased accountability, user empowerment, contract system revision, and virtualized testbeds. This work serves as an appraisal of these strategies and identifies specific uses---and combinations---that may enhance evolution.
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